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Married Couples by Race and Hispanic Origin of Spouses: 1970 to 2006 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0059)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts. This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition) Washington, DC, 2007; http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html

U.S. Census Bureau,

Table MS-3. Interracial Married Couples: 1980 to 2002;

published 15 September 2004;

< http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html >;

and unpublished data.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)
U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/population/www/

U.S. Census Bureau,

Table MS-3. Interracial Married Couples: 1980 to 2002;

published 15 September 2004;

< http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html >;

and unpublished data.

For more information:

http://www.census.gov/population/www/

__referenced on dataset section Note…

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The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns. The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.

    The tables that were changed:

    0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231

  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. As of April and based on Census of Population.
  2. Includes other married couples not shown separately.
  3. The 2003 Current Population Survey (CPS) allowed respondents to choose more than one race. Beginning 2003 data represent persons who selected this race group only and exclude persons reporting more than one race. The CPS in prior years allowed respondents to report only one race group. See also comments on race in the text for this section.
  4. “Other race,” is any race other than White or Black, such as American Indian, Japanese, Chinese, etc. This total excludes combinations of other races by other races.

Headnotes

[In thousands (44,598 represents 44,598,000). As of March, except as noted. Persons 15 years old and over. Persons of Hispanic origin may be any race. Except as noted, based on Current Population Survey and includes members of Armed Forces living off post or with their families on post, but excludes all other members of Armed Forces; see text, this section, and Appendix III. For definition of terms, see text, this section]

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of spouses Unit
Married couples, total 2 1,000 44598 49714 53256 56497 59528
RACE
White/White 3 1,000 40578 44910 47202 48917 50224
Black/Black 3 1,000 3344 3354 3687 3989 3965
Interracial married couples, total 1,000 310 651 964 1464 2274
White 3/Black 3 1,000 65 167 211 363 403
Black husband/White wife 1,000 41 122 150 268 286
White husband/Black wife 1,000 24 45 61 95 117
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and unpublished data.

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2008

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